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treasures of her vanquished foes, so much wealth and power was bound to breed corruption. Sensuality, greed, dishonesty, and every other evil passion, debauched her citizens, her public officials and even her once invincible army.
Thus, as an illustration back even in the days of the Republic, we read in Sallust, the great Latin historian, that Jurgetha the Numedian prince after murdering his two brothers came to Rome to obtain by bribery her assistance in bolstering up his claims to the throne of Numedia; and be it said to the shame of that great people, there was not a public man in Rome that he could not bribe. So, we read when he was leaving he looked back at that great city and cried out:
“O! venal Rome! If I had money enough,
I could buy the body and bones.”
Now to sum up, history with monotonous regularity records the melancholy fact that when the need for struggle ceased, when the period of want was succeeded by a period of plenty, the stamina, courage and patriotism of the people gradually, but surely deteriorated. Just as an apple when most lucious and mellow is nearest to decay, so too often a nation at the zenith of her material prosperity is on the brink of her fall. This inspired Goldsmith to say:
“111 fares the land to hastening ills be prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay;
But a bold peasantry, a country’s pride When once destroyed can never be supplied.”
Now, what of our own glorious country? Will history repeat itself? Do we find in the passing of the nations of old, the forecast of our own fate? Is the spirit of those hardy farmers who whipped the red coats at Concord and Lexington, and who later saved the Union in the early sixties dying out among us? We have reason to fear that it is. Our unprecedented prosperity, it would seem, has a corrupting influence on our citizens as it had on the Romans of old. There are unmistakeable signs of moral deterioration. The struggle between Capital and Labor, swollen fortunes often accumulated by questionable business methods, which legislation seems unable to effectually curb bespeaks selfishness and greed, and sharpens the fangs of anarchy and socialism. The growing evil of divorce, race suicide, immorality and intemperance

treasures of her vanquished foes, so much wealth and power was bound to breed corruption. Sensuality, greed, dishonesty, and every other evil passion, debauched her citizens, her public officials and even her once invincible army.
Thus, as an illustration back even in the days of the Republic, we read in Sallust, the great Latin historian, that Jurgetha the Numedian prince after murdering his two brothers came to Rome to obtain by bribery her assistance in bolstering up his claims to the throne of Numedia; and be it said to the shame of that great people, there was not a public man in Rome that he could not bribe. So, we read when he was leaving he looked back at that great city and cried out:
“O! venal Rome! If I had money enough,
I could buy the body and bones.”
Now to sum up, history with monotonous regularity records the melancholy fact that when the need for struggle ceased, when the period of want was succeeded by a period of plenty, the stamina, courage and patriotism of the people gradually, but surely deteriorated. Just as an apple when most lucious and mellow is nearest to decay, so too often a nation at the zenith of her material prosperity is on the brink of her fall. This inspired Goldsmith to say:
“111 fares the land to hastening ills be prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay;
But a bold peasantry, a country’s pride When once destroyed can never be supplied.”
Now, what of our own glorious country? Will history repeat itself? Do we find in the passing of the nations of old, the forecast of our own fate? Is the spirit of those hardy farmers who whipped the red coats at Concord and Lexington, and who later saved the Union in the early sixties dying out among us? We have reason to fear that it is. Our unprecedented prosperity, it would seem, has a corrupting influence on our citizens as it had on the Romans of old. There are unmistakeable signs of moral deterioration. The struggle between Capital and Labor, swollen fortunes often accumulated by questionable business methods, which legislation seems unable to effectually curb bespeaks selfishness and greed, and sharpens the fangs of anarchy and socialism. The growing evil of divorce, race suicide, immorality and intemperance